Brief Lives
reprints #41-49
Issue #41: Chapter 1 Blossom
for a Lady... by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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Delirium decides she needs to find her missing brother.
Neither Desire or Despair will help.
Issue #42: Chapter 2 It
Always Rains on the Unloved... by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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Delirium enters the Dreaming to ask Dream to help
find their missing brother. Dream agrees, thinking the trip will serve
as a diversion from a recent failed romance.
Issue #43: Chapter 3 The
People Who Remember Atlantis... by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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Dream and Delirium consult an expert to arrange their
travel. Meanwhile, something is trying to kill those who may know where
the missing Endless is now living.
Issue #44: Chapter 4 The
Other Side of the Sky... by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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Dream and Delirium continue on their search, but
a hotel fire kills their driver.
Issue #45: Chapter 5 The
Things We Do To Be Loved... by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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Delirium gets to drive. Dream, Delirium and Matthew
the Raven visit a strip club where Ishtar, who once loved their brother,
now dances.
Issue #46: Chapter 6 Life
Isn't Pleasant, Petrified... by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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After the destruction of the strip club, Dream ends
the search and returns to the Dreaming. Checking with Bast and Lucien,
he finds no further clue to Destruction's whereabouts. When Delirium closes
off her realm, Dream agrees to continue the search in earnest.
Issue #47: Chapter 7 Cooking
Considered as One of the Fine Arts... by Gaiman,Thompson, Locke, Giordano
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With no remaining contacts, Dream and Delirium consult
Destiny on how to proceed with the search. Finally, Dream must sk his son
Orpheus where Destruction can be found.
Issue #48: Chapter 8 Journey's
End... by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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Dream, Destruction and Delirium talk about the Endless
and their duties and characteristics. Destruction decides to leave Earth.
Issue #49: Chapter 9 Farewells...
by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke
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Dream grants Orpheus' boon and returns to the Dreaming.